Urban Areas

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Urban ecology, population ecology, conservation biology, herpetology

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: United States (Saint Louis, Missouri)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Freshwater, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest: Herbaria, global change biology, hyperspectral botany, phenology, ecology

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Grassland, Urban Areas, Botanic Gardens and Herbaria

Primary subject(s) of interest: Community Engagement, Conservation Education

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: United States

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest: Ecology and conservation of mega vertebrates

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:  Congo Basin, Galapagos Islands, Central Africa, Saint Louis, MO

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Grassland, Agricultural land, Urban areas

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• Going Wild in Forest Park: Tracking the Movement of Wildlife and Disease in an Urban Food Web

Primary subject(s) of interest: Plant systematics, floristics, molecular systematics, anatomy, microscopy, ecology, sustainability, palynology, teaching

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: USA, Mexico

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest:  Forest, Savanna, Shrubland, Grassland, Deserts, Agricultural land, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Palm oil sustainability, public education, local conservation

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Tropical rainforests, Forests, Agricultural land, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Climate change education, enhancing biodiversity, community-based conservation engagement, nature-based education, urban biodiversity

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:  Saint Louis region (Missouri)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Urban biodiversity

Primary subject(s) of interest:  (1) Understanding how diverse microbiomes respond to chemical and biological perturbations, (2) harnessing these insights to rationally design therapeutic strategies to curtail antibiotic-resistant pathogens and remedy pathological microbiome states, and (3) engineering microbial catalysts to convert renewable biomass into value chemicals such as biofuels and pharmaceuticals.

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: United States, El Salvador, Peru, Pakistan, Niger, South Africa, Republic of Congo, Netherlands, China, India

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Freshwater, Agricultural lands, Urban areas, Built environment

Primary subject(s) of interest:  One health, conservation medicine

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Global with current emphasis areas in USA, Ecuador, Brazil, Kenya, Madagascar

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Grassland, Freshwater, Marine, Agricultural land, Urban areas, Zoos

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• Ecological Niche Modeling to Examine the Interactions Between Climate-related Environmental Change, Food Security, Landscape Diversity and an Emerging Infectious Disease
• Expanding the Toolset for Chelonian Conservation: Understanding the Diversity, Distribution and Dynamics of Box Turtle Microbiomes
• Quantifying Effects of Parasites on Ecosystem Nutrient Cycling
• Reducing Human-Wildlife Conflict in East Africa Using Participatory Action Research
• Using iDNA to Increase the Protected Status of the Djeke Triangle and Enhance Disease Surveillance in the Congo Basin
• Going Wild in Forest Park: Tracking the Movement of Wildlife and Disease in an Urban Food Web

Primary subject(s) of interest: Ecology, conservation, and management of predator-prey species using noninvasive techniques

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: United States (South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, Nebraska, and San Francisco), South America (Argentina), & Asia (Bhutan)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Shrubland, Grassland, Agricultural land, Urban areas, Monocultural plantations & fragmented ecosystems

Primary subject(s) of interest: Cognitive, behavioral, and urban ecology, mechanisms of decision making, pollination and foraging in bees and flies

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Shrubland, Grassland, Agricultural land, Urban areas, Zoos

Primary subject(s) of interest:   Herpetology, Conservation Biology, Cave Biology

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Via the Saint Louis Zoo(Missouri, Armenia, Ecuador) and externally (Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ukraine, Puerto Rico)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Grassland, Freshwater, Caves and subterranean habitats, Deserts, Urban areas, Zoos

Primary subject(s) of interest: All Horn if Africa wildlife including Grevy's zebra, hirola, black rhino, mountain nyala, giraffe, African wild ass, and Ethiopian wolf; southeast Asian wildlife, such as banteng; local Missouri wildlife and urban biodiversity

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Horn of Africa, including Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somaliland

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Savanna, Grassland, Deserts, Urban areas

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• Evaluating Planned Grazing as an Approach to Improving Rangeland Habitat for Grevy’s Zebra and Pastoralists in Kenya

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Evolutionary ecology, behavioral ecology, vibrational communication, biotremology, climate change, evolution of complex traits, animal communication

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Saint Louis, Eastern North America

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Shrubland, Grassland, Agricultural land, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest: Anthropology, Archaeology, Asia, Human Ecology, Grassland ecology, Tropical jungles

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Asia-Pacific (Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Nepal)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Grassland, Deserts, Urban areas, Mountains

Primary subject(s) of interest: Agriculture, plant domestication, archaeobotany, ethnobotany, and conservation

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Mexico, United States (Mississippi River valley, St Louis Metro area, SE and Southwest US)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Grassland, Freshwater, Deserts, Agricultural land, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Floristics, plant taxonomy, and plant conservation

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Tanzania

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Shrubland, Grassland, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest: Anthropogenic impacts on aquatic invertebrates; ecological impacts of pavement deicers; freshwater mussel population dynamics; community science; ecological epidemiology

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: United States

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Freshwater, Urban areas

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• Biodiversity of Freshwater Mussels of the Upper Sangamon River (Illinois): Community Science in Action

Primary subject(s) of interest: Circadian rhythms, light pollution, preterm birth, brain cancer

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: United States

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Grassland, Deserts, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Computer Vision, Remote Sensing, Species Distribution Modeling

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Shrubland, Grassland, Deserts, Agricultural land, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest: The ecology, physiology, behavior, learning, and conservation of amphibians, reptiles and birds

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Central and eastern Missouri and central and southern Illinois

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Grassland, Freshwater, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest: Lichen taxonomy

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:  North America (Interior Highlands, Great Plains, Central Tallgrass Prairie, Great Lakes)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Grassland, Urban areas

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• A Carbon Garden: A Saint Louis-Based Model for Urban Bioenergetics Carbon Capture and Storage

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Disease ecology, environmental racism, population genetics

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Animal Behavior, Mammalogy, Ethology, Urban Ecology, Science Outreach, STEM Diversity

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:  Mid-West United States (Saint Louis Metro area); Tanzania (Arusha)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Grassland, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Urban wildlife, human-wildlife interface

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: United States, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest: Community engagement, conservation education, ornithology

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Global

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Urban areas, Zoos

Primary subject(s) of interest:  human and nonhuman primates, gut microbiome, host-microbe interactions, molecular and microbial ecology

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:  United States, Costa Rica, Mexico, Ecuador, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Asia

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Shrubland, Urban Areas

Primary subject(s) of interest: Infectious disease, Antimicrobial stewardship, Implementation science

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: United States

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Urban areas

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: United States (Missouri)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Grassland, Freshwater, Urban areas

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• Land Management Effects on Microbiome Diversity in Disease Vectors
• Microrefugia Against Climate Change

Affiliated Institution(s): Saint Louis Zoo, Saint Louis University

Primary subject(s) of interest: Birds, especially birds of prey

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: United States (Missouri)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Freshwater, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest: Diversification in social insects, evolutionary ecology, and population genetics, urban ecology

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:   USA (Missouri)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Agricultural land, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest: Poetry & Environmental Stewardship; Interdisciplinary Conservation Programming; Language of Conservation

Primary geographic interest: United States

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Shrubland, Grassland, Freshwater, Marine, Deserts, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest: Conservation Medicine, One Health, Wildlife Health, Herpetology

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Global

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Freshwater, Deserts, Urban areas, Zoos

Primary subject(s) of interest: Museum studies, museum exhibitions, history, contemporary art, anthropology, conservation

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Global

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: All

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Public arts and humanities projects--Environment and public space

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:  United States (Los Angeles, Saint Louis, Missouri)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest: Conservation medicine, emergence and transmission of diseases at the human-domestic animal and wildlife interface; Carnivore conservation (Felidae, Canidae, Ursidae)

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:  United States, Madagascar

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Urban areas, Zoos

LEC Projects

• Data-driven conservation of the critically endangered diademed sifaka and the black and white ruffed lemur living in fragmented habitats

Primary subject(s) of interest: Livability, Built environment, and Public health

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Brazil, United Kingdom, United States (St. Louis), Mexico

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest: Plant evolution; plant sexual systems; mutualisms; biogeography; history of systematics

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:  Worldwide

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Evolutionary genetics of plants, molecular evolution of genetics, systematics, and quantitative genetics

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Grassland, Agricultural land, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest: Environmental Security, Transnational Threats, Intelligence Fusion Analytics

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Global, Central African Republic, Madagascar, United States, Mali*, Burkina Faso (*Support research remotely from US)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Shrubland, Grassland, Freshwater, Marine, Caves and subterranean habitats, Deserts, Agricultural land, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Comparative Animal Physiology, Ecophysiology, Metabolism, Thermal Biology

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:  Midwestern United States from Missouri to the Canadian border

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Freshwater, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest: Plant domestication and evolution, phylogenomics, population genomics, hybridization

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:  Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, United States

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Agricultural land, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest: Ecology and evolution of mosquitoes, urban, invasion, and disease ecology.

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:  United States (Saint Louis, MO)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Urban areas

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Insect biodiversity and conservation, citizen science, insect husbandry

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:  Global, with a focus on animals of the tropics (Costa Rica) and USA (Missouri)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Shrubland, Grassland, Deserts, Agricultural land, Urban areas, Zoos